The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884.

Title: Memorandums relative to pictures, china, & furniture, &c, &c, &c [photocopy]

Dates: 1879.

Call No.: Doc. 1506

Acc. No.: Ph 959

Quantity: 1 folder (ca. 68 p. on ca. 35 leaves)

Location: 31 I

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884) was the daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), congressman, Massachusetts state senator, and president of Harvard University. Her great-grandfather was Colonel Josiah Quincy (1710-1784). His fortune was increased when the merchant vessel Bethell, of which he was part owner, captured a Spanish treasure ship. In 1770, he built a large house in that part of Braintree, Massachusetts, which later became Quincy. Eliza Susan and her sisters Abigail Phillips (1803-1893) and Mary Sophia (1805-1886) inherited the house. They had two other sisters (Margaret Morton and Anna Cabot Lowell) and three brothers (Josiah, Edmund, and John Morton) as well. Eliza Susan was also a talented amateur artist. The Quincy House is now owned by Historic New England.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

In 1876, Eliza Susan Quincy, Abby Phillips, and Mary Sophia Quincy, great-granddaughters of Josiah Quincy of Braintree, inherited the house he had built in 1770. Eliza Susan compiled this record of household goods in 1879. Not a strict inventory, she used this opportunity to record information about the many pieces of furniture and art in the house. A sample entry reads “the cane furniture in the hall was brought from China 1790, by Capt. James Magee…”; however, she did not say how many pieces nor what types of cane furniture there were (for example, whether chairs or settees). When known, she gave histories of ownership and dates of purchases of the objects in the house. The list is divided by room (west parlor, east parlor, dining room, etc.).

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

The materials are in English.

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.

PROVENANCE

The volume was in private hands at the time it was copied.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Quincy family.

Topics:

House furnishings - Inventories.

House furnishings - Massachusetts - Quincy.

INDEX TO THE VOLUME:

[note: numbers are page numbers; following this list is a list of paintings, etchings, and other pictures mentioned in the volume]

Adams Academy 31

Adams, J. Q. 22, 51

Adams, John 37, 40

Adrian, Emperor 14

Agassiz 26a

Alert, The (ship) 28

Alexandrine Column 42

Alope 35

Alsop, Mrs. 21

Ann of Geirstein 3

Argyle, Duke of 56

Baillie 43

Balmano(?), Mrs. 21

Banks .20

Barbauld 43

Bartolozzi 20

Bass, J. 28

Bayard 38

Bebee 11

Beck 50, 55

Bethel 4, 31

Bethel, Slingsby 4

Bigelow, Jacob (Dr.) 13, 14

Bocco Tigris, The 30

Bogert 8, 38, 40, 44, 51

Boissun (?) 20

Bonaparte 42

Booth, W. 5

Boston Athenaeum 48

Bouchette 48

Bowdoin, Gov. 49

Boyd 38

Bremer 24

Bromfield 11, 25, 29, 44, 49, 50, 56, 57

Bromfield Academy 52

Bromfield, Ann Roberts 52

Bromfield, Edward 29, 56

Bromfield, John 52

Brown, D. L. 10

Bulfinch 26

Bullus, S. Morton 7

Bullus, Sophia. Morton 6, 24

Burnell, Barker 34

Burney 56

Callot 35

Canova 25

Capitol - Washington 25a

Carter, Ann 32

Carter, Ann Eliza 32

Cecilia 56

Channing, W. E. (Rev.) 34

Charles I 20

Chickering 24

Chikatabot 62

Clano, The Lake of 10

Clarke 68

Claude 10, 21, 25a, 29, 57

Claude's Mill 19

Coote 18

Coote, Sir Charles 18

Copley 20

Coventry, Maria, Countess of 36

Cowley 58

Crawford 18, 19, 29

Crouch 5

Cumaean Sybile 40, 42

Cushing, T. 7

Dabney 25a

Dana (?) 21

Dante 42

Davis 35

Davis, John 63

Davis, T. P. 11, 20, 35, 38, 46

Declaration of Independence 25a

DeWitt 11

Dolce, Carlo 40

Doughty 3

Dowse 11, 15, 23, 26, 30, 50, 55, 57

Dowse, Edward 24

Durham Cathedral 8, 68

Dwight, (Col.) 34

Edwin and Angelina 36

Elgin, Lord 14

Eliot, Catherine 34

Eliot, S. A. 19

Eustis, Governor 33

Everett 42

Faber 29, 50

Fairbanks 22

Faneuil 50, 58

Faneuil Hall Market 58

Fisher, A. 68

Fisher, Alvan 5, 27, 28, 39

Forbes, John 7

Foster 14

Foster, Augustus J. (Sir) 13, 14

Fouquet 13, 14

Franklin 53

Franklin, [Benjamin] 6, 38

Freeman, (Captain) 4

Frost 3, 11

Frothingham 52

Furness 39, 52

Furness, W. 38

Gardiner, R. H. 3

Geenough (? Grenough?) 55

George III 6, 20

Gore 12

Gore, Christopher 2

Gouldson 20

Gray 15, 16

Gray, F. C. 11, 25

Gray, Francis C. 14a

Greece, King of 26a

Green 4a

Greene 2, 17, 20, 25, 36, 41, 42

Greene, B. D. 2, 3, 19, 39, 52

Greene, Gardiner 58

Greene, M. Q. 8, 22

Greene, Margaret Q. 47

Greene, T. S. Copley 19

Greene, Wm. P. 5

Guild 24, 34, 38, 54

Guild, E. Eliot 21, 40, 54

Guild, Eliza Ann 32

Guild, Eliza Eliot 24

Halkett 9, 10

Halkett, John 8

[Halkett], Catherine (Lady) 9

Hancock 48

Hanson 34

Harding, Chester 52

Harvard College 11, 16, 38, 39, 45, 46, 52

Hayley 56

Henderson 40

Henry 20

Henry 4th 22

Hitchings 22

Hogarth 53

Holland 5

Horton 44

Howe, Dr. (?) 26a

Hudson Bay Company 8, 10

Humphries 7, 17

Humphries, Gen. 17

Jackson, E. 4

Jackson, Susan 38

Jackson, William 28, 47

Jellabranoli(?), Mrs. 25

Jefferson, Thomas 4

Judkins 43

Julius, Dr. 4

Jupiter 14

Kaufman, Angelica 52

Keating, Anna Storer 3

Keating, H. 67

Keating, Hannah 32

Kemper, M. S. 8

Kemper, Maria Sophia 8

Kirkland, Dr. 18, 19

Lafayette 18, 40

Landseer 5, 68

Leicester, Earl of 51

Lewis, Abi 12

Lewis, Edmonia 5, 25

Lincoln, [Abraham] 5

Lingan, Genl. 34

Lloyd, James 62

Loudon 56

Lowell, Anna Cabot 39

Ludlow 24

Lynam, T. 40

Magee 2

Magee, (Captain) 2, 30

Magee, James (Capt.) 1

Malbone 39

Mann, Horace 34

Marcantonio 35

Marchant 3, 30

Maria, Countess of Coventry 36

Mason 36

Massachusetts College 52

Massachusetts Historical Society 2, 4

McArdell 56

Merchant 1

Miller, S. R. 38

Morghen 40, 42

Morton 7, 21, 34, 35, 52, 54, 55, 56

Morton, Clark 4a

Morton, E. S. 36, 56

Morton, Eliza Susan 51, 58

Morton, H. J. 21

Morton, J. 35

Morton, John 8, 21, 25, 36, 40, 56

Morton, John L. 22, 37

Morton, M. S. 6, 7, 24, 29, 36, 38, 51

Morton, Margaret 38, 40, 44, 51

Morton, Maria S. 53

Morton, Washington 29

Murray, Elizabeth 11

Nachtigal (?) 11, 14a

Newton 56

North, Lord 40, 52

Norton 34

Oberlin 14a, 15

O’Sullivan 53

Otho, Hall of - Palace 26a

Otho, landing of 26a

Packard 32

Packard, A. (Rev.) 32

Palmer 37

Parker 25

Parker, D. P. 6, 29

Parry, Edward (Sir) 18

Parthenon 13

Pemborton 62

Phillips 29, 49, 50, 55, 57

Phillips, Abigail 5, 49

Phillips, Abigail Bromfield 55

Phillips, Edward 37

Phillips, Jonathan 37, 50

Phillips, W. 50

Phillips, William 1, 7, 50, 58

Pickering, John 13

Poesia 40, 42

Pomeroy 25a

Porch (?) 58

Poussin 36

Prussia, King of 4

Q., T. 24

Quincy 3, 9, 10, 12-15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25a, 26a, 27, 28, 29, 38-40, 42-44, 52, 53, 58, 61

Quincy, A. 6, 7, 12, 13, 20, 23, 32, .49

Quincy, A. P. 3, 25

[Quincy?], Abby Phillips 1, 2, 5, 11, 12

Quincy, Abigail 1, 5, 6, 12, 13, 20, 23, 25a, 26, 30, 47, 55, 57

Quincy, Ann 31, 32

Quincy, Beulia (?) 6

Quincy, Col. 32

Quincy, E. 14

Quincy, E. S. 3, 5-7, 20-22, 24, 25a, 38, 40, 44, 47

Quincy, E. S. M. 35, 37, 39, 49, 52, 55, 57

Quincy, Edmund 4, 37-39, 42

Quincy, Eliza S. 3, 4, 8-10, .35, 45, 53, 57

Quincy, Eliza Susan l-3, 4a, 6, 11, 12, 20, 21, 25, 29

Quincy, Esther 48

Quincy, Hannah 3

Quincy, Henry P. 39

Quincy, J. P. 22, 51

Quincy, Josiah 3-5, 14, 28, 29, 33, 34, 37-39, 42, 48-51, 53, 54, 62, 64, 67

Quincy, Josiah (Col.) 1, 5, 6, 31, 38

Quincy, Josiah (Jr.) 20, 31, 52

Quincy, Judge 31

Quincy, M. S. 54

Quincy, M. Sophia 3, 5, 35, 48, 54, 68

Quincy, Margaret de 51

Quincy, Mary Jane 7

Quincy, Mary Sophia 1, 2, 11, l2, 20, 22

Quincy, S. M. (Gen.) 5

Quincy, Sophia 5, 25

Quincy, Saer de 51

Quincy, T. P. 5

Radcliff 10

Raphael 11, 14a, 16

Rembrandt 11

Roman Forum 68

Romney 35

Rooker, Edward 35

Roper, W. 25

Rubens 29

Ruthven (?) 38
Ruysdael 2

St. Laurentia 4

St. Memin 4a, 29

St. Paul's Cathedral 35

Salisbury 37

Salisbury, Abby Phillips 37

Salisbury, B(?) 37

Salisbury, Edward 37

Salisbury, Josiah 37

Salisbury, Mary 37

Saltonstall 34

Scollay 53

Scott, Walter 3

Sedgwick 52

Sedgwick, H. D. 34

Selkirk, Lord 8

Sewall, E. 37

Sewall, Jonathan 48, 62

Sewall, Stephen 48

Sewell, Chief Justice 48

Shaw 15, 26, 30, 50, 55

Shaw, Francis 23

Shaw, Major 20, 23, 25, 25a, 26

Shaw, R. G. 25, 30

Shaw, Robert 25

Shaw, S. (Major) 12

Sincon [or Lincon], Dr. 6

Slade, Dr. 11

Sparks 38, 45

Spurrheim, Dr. 14a

State House - Boston 26

Storer 3, 32, 38, 54, 67

Stowe, [Harriet Beecher] 34

Stuart 22, 38, 39

Sturgis 3

Sully 22

Sumner, Charles 34

Susan (?) 66

Thal 40-42

Ticknor 14a

Ticknor, George 22

Titian 3

Torrigiani, Marquis Charles 40-42

Tracy 39, 52

Trumbull, Col. 25a

Tudor, Emma 3

Tudor, William 26a

Udolpho, The Castle of 10

Vanderlyn 22

Van dyke 20

Vandyke, M. 34

Varley 9

Varley, J. 8, 10

Vaughan 43

Vaughan, Benjamin 42

Vaughan, Sarah 42, 43

Vautin 5, 6, 37

Vautin, N(?) 3

Victoria, Queen 68

Vidua, Count 37

Vivares 20, 21

Wadsworth, James 63

Wakefield, Priscilla 36

Walpole, Horace 35, 49

Ware, Henry (Jr.) 14a

Warkworth Castle 36

Washington, Genl. 42, 52

Waterston 5, 10

Waterston, Anna 3

Waters ton, Anna C. L. 25, 39

Waterston, Helen 5

Waterston, Hotel 26

Waterston, R. C. 18, 20, 26, 35, 38, 51, 68

Waterston, Robert 26

Watson 52

Wells, Sarah 25a

Wells, W. 5

West 22

Wheaton Academy 32

White, Judge 34

Wigglesworth, Ann 12

Wigglesworth, Mary 12

Willard 11

Willard, Joseph 11

Woollet 21, 56

Paintings and other pictures listed by Eliza Susan Quincy:

Page 3: Landscape by Ruysdael;

3 Landscapes by Doughty;

"Ann of Geirstein" from Walter Scott and a Winter & Autumn Sunset, no artist given;

Landscape of “Eagle Lake,” by Frost;

Mt. Desert, no artist given;

Marine Views by an English artist;

Wood Scene, by Emma Tudor;

Likeness of President Josiah Quincy (painted on glass), by Marchant;

Embroidery: Quincy-Sturgis coats of arms;

Titian's Daughter - Photograph from, by Anna Waterston;

View of Boston Common from Park St. Corner, by N.(?) Vautin;

Page 4: Two Indian chiefs of Osage Nation, no artist given;

The Bethel, by unknown artist;

Page 4a: Clark Morton, by St. Memin;

Page 5: View of the Fall of Lime Stone Creek, by Alvan Fisher;

View near Rome, watercolor by Crouch;

View of the house of Abigail Quincy, by Vautin;

Flower Piece, by Holland;

"The Favorites": Horse & Dogs, by Landseer;

Seaview, by Waterston;

Two drawings, watercolors by J. Varley

Page 10: A View of Snowden, by J. Varley;

Copies of drawings of The Castle of Udolpho from the novel by Mrs. Radcliff; Copies of works by D. L. Brown;

Copy of a work by Claude;

Page 11: Watercolor landscape, copy of a work by Vautin;

Angel, from the Madonna del Sisto of Raphael;

See(?) View, an oil color by Frost;

Head in oil color, by Elizabeth Murray;

Page 12: View in Florence on the Arno;

Page 13: Model of Parthenon, by Fouquet;

Page 18: Diana of the Seasons (Sevres) – copy of Diana of the Louvre;

Girandole;

Page 20: 3 engravings: the Children of Charles I, by Van Dyke, and the daughters of George 3^rd, by Copley;

A storm - Figures by Bartolozzi;

Landscape, by Vivares;

Etchings (2), by Boissun(?);

Ink Drawing, by Eliza Susan Quincy;

“The Evening of the Roman Empire,” engraved by Woolet after Claude; “A View on the Ionian Sea,” by Claude;

2 Flower pieces, by Balmano;

Two drawings by H. J. Morton;

View near Naples, engraved by Vivares after Claude;

Page 22: The Madonna del Sisto, copied by E. S. Quincy from an engraving;

View of Niagara from Table Rock, copied by John S. Morton, from work by Vanderlyn;

Engraving of Henry 4th & Sully after the Battle of Tury;

Engraving - West Battle of the Boyrie;

View near the Fairbanks house, by Hitchings;

Page 24: Bust of Robert Shaw, by Edmonia Lewis;

Canova's Hebe;

Page 25a: Reduced copy of Claude's View near Naples, by E. S. Quincy;

Page 26a: Landing of Otho;

Page 27: Two paintings of Dedham, by Alvan Fisher;

Page 29: Josiah Quincy, age 26;

Mrs. M. S. Morton, age 57, by St. Memin;

Engravings of antiques, marbles – heads, by Faber;

Page 30: 4 Chinese drawings: (1) Macau, (2) The Bocco Tigris, (3) Whampoa, (4) Canton;

Page 35: Print - "Alope," after Romney;

Colored engraving "Arch," drawn by Callot, engraved bv Edward Rooker;

Page 36: Engravings: "Warkworth Castle";

Maria, Countess of Coventry (print)

Page 37: Photographs - two angel heads sculpted by Palmer

Page 38: Portrait - head - Josiah Quincy, copy after Stuart

A crayon, copy of Mrs. E. S. M. Quincy by Stuart, done by W. Furness;

Page 39: Josiah Quincy (age 33), by Stuart;

Landscape view of [Harvard] College, by Alvan Fisher;

Photograph of head, an enlarged copy of a miniature of Anna Cabot Lowell, original painted by Malbone;

Page 40: Oval profiles: Margaret Morton, John Morton;

Print of Lafayette;

Print of John Adams;

Page 42: Bronze medal of Dante;

Print of General Washington crossing Delaware, by Sarah Vaughan;

Page 43: Painting of Madonna;

Page 48: Map - lower Canada, by Bouchette;

Page 49: Print of Lord North of Newton, of Pride, and of Savoyard;

12 colored engravings of birds;

Page 50: Heads of antique marbles (prints), by Faber;

Page 52: Portrait of Mrs. E. S. M. Quincy (crayon), copy by Furness from portrait by Chester Harding;

Portrait of Ann Roberts Bromfield, copied from Frothingham;

Harvard Map;

Print of Lord North & General Washington, mentioned p. 29

Page 53: Engraving: Good Samaritan, by Hogarth;

View of O’Sullivan's Cascade, Ireland, watercolor, copy by Eliza S. Quincy;

Page 56: Duke of Argyle, engraving by Woollet;

Prints to illustrate Fanny Burney’s novel Cecilia;

Prints to illustrate Hayley’s “Triumph of Temper”;

Engraving, “Pride,” by McArdell

Page 58: three engravings on blue paper;

House where poet Cowley was born, Chertsey, England;

Views of churches of England;

Page 68: photograph of Roman Forum;

View of the interior of Durham Cathedral;

Dog’s head, “Dignity & Impudence,” by Landseer’

Engraving of a horse, from Landseer?